Word: quit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tooks went into the jungle, armed with colored post cards and bead necklaces. His Indian guides deserted him. He waded knee-deep through streams thick with evil-headed snakes. Malaria got him, pulled him down to 97 lb. He had to quit, go home...
...many a farmer was in the same spot. Defense has begun to drain off the farm labor supply. Since Army wages look better to low-paid farmhands than to industrial workers, more Army volunteers have come from rural districts than any place else. Some have been drafted. More have quit their jobs to work in new aluminum plants at 60? an hour, as carpenters on new Army camps at $7 a day. Many a farmer or potential farmhand is on WPA, NYA or CCC rolls.* Average wage of U.S. farmhands rose from $27.45 and board in April...
...Hell and Maria") Dawes, 75, former Vice President who made the underslung pipe famous, quit smoking...
...churchgoers asking clemency for a wife murderer who had since got religion and stopped drinking, turkey-necked Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia declared: "I wish you Christian people would help me establish whipping posts for drunkards. A dressing down . . . in front of the Courthouses would make them quit this foolishness...
Japanese penetration dates from 1937, when a Pan Am affiliate had to quit its Shanghai-Hong Kong feeder line because Japanese bombs made Shanghai unhealthy. A year later, using Douglas and Lockheed planes made in Japan with the help of U.S. technicians, Japan started a vast airways network with Kyushu Island as main roost for transports...